A spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to partial or complete paralysis ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco put AI to work analyzing study participants’ gaits, then had it develop personalized brain ...

A novel way to reverse paralysis. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute call it a major milestone in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. By applying deep brain stimulation to the ...

Scientists said Monday that electrically stimulating a particular region in the brain could help people with injured spinal cords walk more easily, with one patient describing how the technique ...

Electricity is the brain’s language. For a decade, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and philanthropy have enabled UC San Francisco physician-scientists to decipher this language and use ...

Deep brain stimulation is a surgical brain therapy used to treat symptoms of movement disorders such as dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Performing over 100 DBS procedures annually, the ...

For many people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), walking can become one of the most challenging daily tasks. As many as 3 in 4 people with MS have gait issues caused by factors like loss of muscle ...

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For ...